I think I'm getting there, but this was a very unpleasant surprise for my first Mikrotik experience.įrom what I've been able to grasp, routeros looks like a fantastically versatile and powerful tool. Grasping RouterOS, while trying to hack together a, in networking terms, quite straight forward and simple configuration. Has so far taken the better part of two days. Maybe I'm a bit slow, but a job that I'd expect would take 15-30 minutes, unpacking a switch, hooking up som cables, setting up some bonds, tagging and untagging a few vlans. Here is the Google cached version if the quickstart guide. Not sure if that is too hot or if it would been fine under load, but it seemed concerning. I should also mention, that the two I had, on ROS, spiked CPU temps to 65c and the fans to full blast within 3 minutes of boot with zero load and only one port connected for configuration on the bench (ambient temperature 68f). I am very disappointed by MT for this last minute switcharoo and what seems like a cover up on the backend. I had to return them as I am not interested in running ROS on switches (love ROS, just not for switches). My guess is that the production delays were related to SwOS so they canned it at the last minute to get the units out the door. I have also since found a google cached version of the QS guide from the MT site that did have the dual boot language in it. I sent them a picture of the guide in the box and they played it off as a printing mistake.

I went back to the website and sure enough, all was changed. I immediately reached out to my suppliers and they said, 'no, it does not have SwOS'. No SwOS at all (although interestingly the quick guide in the box still stated it did).

I had them shipped directly to the datacenter, and boy was I surprised at what I found when I flew out there to install them. I had 2 pre-ordered, and when I ordered them the website most certainly said they supported SwOS.

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